The Confession of Faith, also called the First London Baptist Confession, is

Particular Baptist Reformed Baptists (sometimes known as Particular Baptists or Calvinistic Baptists) are Baptists that hold to a Calvinist soteriology (salvation). The first Calvinist Baptist church was formed in the 1630s. The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith w ...

confession of faith A creed, also known as a confession of faith, a symbol, or a statement of faith, is a statement of the shared beliefs of a community (often a religious community) in a form which is structured by subjects which summarize its core tenets. The e ...

Origin

In 1644, seven

(Reformed Baptist or Calvinistic Baptist) churches met in

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to write a confession of faith. The document, called ''First London Baptist Confession'', was published in 1644.Michael Edward Williams, Walter B. Shurden, ''Turning Points in Baptist History'', Mercer University Press, USA, 2008, p. 17

Doctrine

This

contains 53 articles.James Leo Garrett, ''Baptist Theology: A Four-century Study'', Mercer University Press, USA, 2009, p. 53 It contains the doctrine of the

believers' Church The believers' Church is a theological doctrine of Evangelical Christianity that teaches that one becomes a member of the Church by new birth and profession of faith. Adherence to this doctrine is a common feature of defining an Evangelical Christia ...

and the believer's baptism.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:1644 Baptist Confession Of Faith 1644 works 1646 works Baptist statements of faith History of Christianity in England 17th-century Christian texts Reformed confessions of faith Baptist Christianity in England 17th-century Calvinism